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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

have no closeness really with the person who is undertaking the travel . Ba : Did Mr . Johnson's rather flamboyant style go over well in London when he would visit there? B : I believe the British generally considered him a picturesque character

Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

gracious way she captivated that crowd. F: Did you find her, by bus and boat, a pretty good traveler? C: Oh, wonderful. F: Do you make a great deal of extra preparation? C: We always make a lot of preparations when the members of the First Family go

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

felt like that that--I mean I asked him, to his knowledge, was that ever brought out at all during the campaign. He said Johnson to his memory--of course he didn't travel allover the district with him-never really made it an issue in any

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

attitude. Did you ever have any occasion to travel with Mr. Johnson on any of his trips? B: No, I didn't travel with him at all as vice president. M: Did Mr. Kennedy ever talk to you about the effectiveness of Mr. Johnson as a foreign emissary? B

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. F: Well, what did you do? Travel the state with him? B: He did not make an extensive campaign that year. As I recall, the year before [in] 1953, he went over the state making speeches and building up his organizations, and I covered him

Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and my wife was privileged to sit by Truman . I first met Truman, and he always recalled me, traveling from St . Louis to Washington on a railroad train when he had not even been at that time the chairman of the investigating committee that made him

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

graduated from Harvard in 1961, and free-lanced for a while--traveled for a year and then free-lanced writing a book about the travels- then went into the Marine Corps for a brief period, came out and rewrote the book, worked for the Washington Post

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Of course they'd build up for security then, they had the couple of travel trailers or not travel but mobile homes up at the other end for the army, for the helicopter pilots and their crew. And they had security--secret service had their own little house

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

of be the traveling assistant. [He said] that the rest of the organization--we had a very limited staff at this point--hadn't been built up so they needed a lot of bodies at the headquarters to keep things going and they could only spare one out. You [Paul Bolton

Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

into the Senate in 1958. The Senator got him aside and said, "Senator, you don't know it, but you're going to be doing a lot of traveling. What I want you to do--and you might as well be prepared for this--I want you to go everywhere Allen Ellender goes. Anyplace

Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)

because my wife's w~s obvious, and we had been told th~t pr~gnanc~ there were certain regulations against women who were more than five months pregnant traveling on a troop transport. ( So, until we got to the LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Peter P. Muirhead, interview S-I, 7/23/1968, by Herman R. Allen (Item)

has be e n crucia l in t tl~ The influen ce of - II I f clcvclo nmcnt of an • e ducat io n ~ 3 e ff e ct ivc F cu c r a li ·as s i s t cul cc 4 f\~ver in our histGfY have we travele d so ~- ar in so short a 5 ! time in transla ting

Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

they put down and then I came back, and I asked to talk to the drivers of the tankers. Of course, they would travel the roads all by themselves. G: These were Vietnamese drivers? L: Oh, yes, Vietnamese drivers. It was just curious how the hell

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that was so promising at one point, with the demise of the media guarantee program, with even the sharp cutback in funds to permit my staff to travel, fewer books coming over to the USIA library, all kinds of cutbacks, the attitude that this whole pattern

Oral history transcript, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about six months talking to people all over the country, asking them what they would do if the delinquency legislation passed, and therefore traveled into Harlem and Watts and a lot of the ghettoes of the country. It became evident, at least to me

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. And there was somebody nobody ever heard of ran eighth. G: That's a crowded field, isn't it? J: We spoke together every night, because the only way to ever get a cro\oKJ was to travel around, in the middle of a hot surnner. There were no other races, just us. G

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? J: I don't remember. That could have been how we heard of him. I think maybe it was through the radio business. G: All of these campaign stops that you mentioned, did you travel with him on any of these stops? J: Some of them. Not as many. You

Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek (Item)

, hiring people to write letters, and travel expenses for Johnson and some of his workers. I'd say, probably of all the money that was spent, more was on newspapers than any other way, and getting some placards and posters to put up. I think they had some

Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Clements -- I -- 5 would travel. Some of us would try to keep him posted, keep him

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- Interview IV -- 13 F: Did you travel with the President during his campaigning? C: I did not. F: You stayed here? C: I stayed here and was available for conferences with the people who were working here. We had a small group, maybe three or four

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the Secretary of Defense. I think it doesn't come through too well there. But in any number of instances, we've found in our travels--you see, each member of this intelligence board would have to go abroad each year and so it gave us information on the ground

Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the participation, I think really did it. As you know, I did a lot of travel there, and by 1971 when I left I could go to places that I'd have had my head shot off three years before, no question about that. I rode through the countryside in the night and rode up

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to a funeral, gone to Vietnam, gone to Thailand to a secret air base, gone and seen Ayub Khan in Pakistan, seen the Pope and come back to the United States. All of this in a span of just over four days, traveling 26,959 miles. But the President, now, when you

Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: And this is near the town of Tan An. D: Yes. So you really couldn't send your commerce up the traditional routes, and so on. So Highway 4 became your thing. Now I would tell you that in 1965, I sure as hell would not travel from Can Tho anywhere on Highway 4

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

to Monahans, Texas, to see a hot prospect one minute ahead of the coach from University of Oklahoma. And you don't not go because you spent your travel allotment for that month or something. They have a free hand, and they work out the justifications later. So

Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was exercising a good deal of influence. B: That's right. Exactly. No, that's news to me. I had not known that. G: One question relates to your speechmaking function, and you evidently did travel around the country a good deal. To what extent were

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

with. And there was no basis for it. Finally I said, "David, you've got to change this order. Why don't you say what you meant was you wanted to review all of the requests for travel to 17 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the King and LBJ together. He had apparently known him a number of years. He'd traveled to Norway when he was vice president. B: Yes, I'm trying to [remember]. I'm sorry, let me just--is that in here? G: Yes. It should be the last page of April

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Bend; those were the two of the big trips. And on her last trip, "The Last Hurrah," (I hope I'm remembering right), there were eighty reporters. F: For that kind of trip, that was very good. C: And they paid. Of course, the advantage of traveling

Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

the whole mess I had resolved not to allow it to have any undignified, if that's the proper word, exposure. In other words, I didn't want to make fun of the whole thing or in any way impugn the President or anything of that sort. But it did travel around

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

reversed. And I think it has been reversed in the sense that we're traveling more and more miles with more and more vehicles on more and more highways and while the death rate in numbers perhaps is still rising, when you consider the other factors it's my

Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)